The Rhacophorinae are a subfamily of frogs in the family Rhacophoridae. They range from tropical Africa and Asia to temperate China and Japan.[1]
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The following genera are recognised in the subfamily Rhacophorinae, representing 422 species:[1]
- Beddomixalus Abraham, Pyron, Ansil, Zachariah, and Zachariah, 2013 (monotypic)
- Chirixalus Boulenger, 1893 (six species)
- Chiromantis Peters, 1854 (four species)
- Feihyla Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006 (six species)
- Ghatixalus Biju, Roelants, and Bossuyt, 2008 (three species)
- Gracixalus Delorme, Dubois, Grosjean, and Ohler, 2005 (18 species)
- Kurixalus Ye, Fei, and Dubois, 1999 (22 species)
- Leptomantis Peters, 1867 (13 species)
- Liuixalus Li, Che, Bain, Zhao, and Zhang, 2008 (six species)
- Mercurana Abraham et al., 2013[2] (monotypic)
- Nasutixalus Jiang, Yan, Wang, and Che, 2016 (three species)
- Nyctixalus Boulenger, 1882 (three species)
- Philautus Gistel, 1848 (54 species)
- Polypedates Tschudi, 1838 (25 species)
- Pseudophilautus Laurent, 1943 (80 species)
- Raorchestes Biju, Shouche, Dubois, Dutta, and Bossuyt, 2010 (74 species)
- Rhacophorus Kuhl and Van Hasselt, 1822 (45 species)
- Rohanixalus Biju, Garg, Gokulakrishnan, Chandrakasan, Thammachoti, Ren, Gopika, Bisht, Hamidy, and Shouche, 2020 (eight species)
- Taruga Meegaskumbura, Meegaskumbura, Bowatte, Manamendra-Arachchi, Pethiyagoda, Hanken, and Schneider, 2010 (three species)
- Theloderma Tschudi, 1838 (28 species)
- Vampyrius Dubois, Ohler, and Pyron, 2021 (monotypic)
- Zhangixalus Li, Jiang, Ren, and Jiang, 2019 (40 species)
The following phylogeny of Rhacophorinae is from Yu et al. (2008).[3]
Frost, Darrel R. (2017). "Rhacophorinae Hoffman, 1932 (1858)". Amphibian Species of the World: an Online Reference. Version 6.0. American Museum of Natural History. Retrieved 21 April 2017. Robin Kurian Abraham; R. Alexander Pyron; Ansil B. R.; Arun Zachariah; Anil Zachariah (2013). "Two novel genera and one new species of treefrog (Anura: Rhacophoridae) highlight cryptic diversity in the Western Ghats of India". Zootaxa. 3640 (2): 177–189. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3640.2.3. PMID 26000411. Yu, Guohua; Rao, Dingqi; Zhang, Mingwang; Yang, Junxing (2009). "Re-examination of the phylogeny of Rhacophoridae (Anura) based on mitochondrial and nuclear DNA". Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 50 (3): 571–579. Bibcode:2009MolPE..50..571Y. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.11.023.
